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Mermaid Sketchbook – Sketching Mermaids for 31 Days

Left Center or Right? MerMay is right around the corner, where thousands of artists aim to draw a mermaid a day. I want to get my sketchbook ready! Let me know if you’d like to see the actual sketchbook and offer suggestions!

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Samsung Galaxy Watch – Google Pay Pop-Up Issues

I have a Samsung Galaxy Active2 Watch. I have loved this watch and used it for years to manage my sleep, my walking steps, and much more. Unfortunately, two days ago it began repeatedly popping up, with vibration, alerts about Google Pay. I’ve never even used Google Pay, and I don’t have it installed. This

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Small Press Distribution Closes its Doors

This is very sad news for the publishing industry. As of March 29, 2024, Small Press Distribution has closed its doors. It has shut down operations. All 300,000 of the books in its system needed to be relocated. In our modern print-on-demand world it might be hard for younglings to even understand what Small Press

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Kindle Vella Publishing Changes – 10 Tokens Per Episode

In March 2024, Amazon Kindle Vella’s episodic publishing program underwent a series of changes. This section here is about just one aspect of those changes. It involves how much a reader ‘pays’ to read one episode of a longer story. When Kindle Vella first launched in early 2021, a reader would pay an amount, in

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Kindle Vella Publishing Changes – Ten Episodes Free

If there is one constant in our world, it is that everything is always changing. It does no good to complain about Change. Change is simply a fact of life. Every system we use is going to be tweaked and altered as it struggles to survive in the larger ecosystem. This includes Amazon’s Kindle Vella

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The Front Page – A Play in Three Acts

Woo hoo!! I got the top billing spot on Amazon for my new Kindle version of The Front Page! It’s a play in three acts written back in 1928. This was a CHALLENGE to format. I’m glad this project is done! It’s very interesting reading, given the time period and topic. It all takes place

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Japan Top Literature Prize Won by ChatGPT

Japan’s top literature prize went to a “practically flawless” novel – turns out much of it was guided or outright written by ChatGPT. Human writers better get published soon. We’re about to be overwhelmed by thousands of new ChatGPT novels every day. It’s not that far away. Amazon is already setting limits so that authors

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Dreamstime Copyright Email Messages about DepositPhotos Images

I am an artist. I completely understand that artists need to protect their creations from thieves. I am in favor of that protection. I ethically source every single image on the 35+ websites I own. Over the past twenty years I have purchased the rights to over 2,500 images from DepositPhotos. I found that DepositPhotos

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Using Stock Images as an Author

As part of my latest four-week seminar series, I wrote a new overview book which summarized the 14 different major social networks and what each one was best for. It’s about 80 pages. I loaded it into Amazon yesterday. Amazon wrote me back asking me for proof that I owned rights to the image in

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ACX / AudioBooks

My author friend Sarah Whelan was able to quickly make her audiobook for Humbug and is now selling copies already. Humbug on Amazon I *highly* recommend you all consider creating ACX audiobook versions of each of your books. It is wholly free up front with royalty share. That also encourages your narrators to help market

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